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Re: Mastering Aid was Re: AW: Powered Subs...on to mastering



You're welcome!  I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by it.

Good Luck!

~peace~

Plish


> At 5:17 PM -0500 1/7/08, mike@michaelplishka.com wrote:
>>Mid last year I experimented with and started using Har-Bal.
>>http://www.har-bal.com/
>>
>>It's pretty cool and has elminated those, "I tried it here and it was
>>great but there it sounds blah" situations. Once I've dialed in the
>>curves, I've yet to pop it into my car or any other sound system, and it
>>not sound right.
>
> Thanks for the tip, Plish!  Unfortunately, Har-Bal isn't released for
> Mac yet, so I'm going to have to find one of my old PC lappies.  No
> biggie, but I'm going to have to spend an evening digging through
> boxes.
>
> As it turns out, just last night I received the CD pressing with the
> aforementioned track on it.  I'm not entirely satisfied with the way
> it turned out, but I think that's more to do with the fact that what
> I submitted was mostly unmastered.  It was for a compilation, and I
> usually leave the mastering on compilations to whoever is assembling
> it, so that they can make the disc more unified as a whole.
> Unfortunately, it looks like almost everyone else turned in mastered
> tracks with the loudness maximized up to the moon.  Mine sounds a
> little pale side-by-side with those.  :P
>
> Looks like I gotta do some more work on this one before releasing it
> as an MP3.  With any luck Har-Bal will help.
>
> Thanks again!
>
>       --m.
> --
> _____
> "the wind in my heart; the dust in my head...."
>
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